The American Dream

Okay folks. I need some help here.

Can someone tell me just WHEN our inalienable rights went from "Life, Liberty and the PURSUIT of happiness" and became "Life, Liberty, and having happiness handed to you because, awwwwww it's just not FAIR that YOU POOR THING can't have a house and credit cards and all the food and games and stuff that you WANT because AWWWWWWWWWW you don't WANT to work because it's EASIER to let the Government hand you everything on a silver platter and, oh yeah, even THINK for you."

I just don't get it. Before this country was started, before those wonderful words Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness) were written, there was a law in the colony that stated "You don't work? You don't eat." Period.

Because those Colonists KNEW that the ONLY way they could make things work was for everyone to do their job! No, I'm not talking about the Communist stuff of "everyone works and everyone gets everything the same because we're all equals here" but the actual everyone does his best for the good of the community. You do your job, you get compensated for said job.

Just like it's SUPPOSED to be in this day and age.

But no no no. Everyone is EQUAL! The Declaration of Independence says we are! See???

Um. Yeah. I think you need to check your reading comprehension abilities. The DoI says that we're all CREATED equal. After that, we're supposed to make something of OURSELVES!

But *waaahhh* Suzi swam too fast and I couldn't swim that fast so I lost!!! (oh no dear, you won and Suzi won and Jimmy won and...and...)

Yeah, can't have any competition you know. EVERYONE has to be the very best! There's no such THING as competition in the "REAL WORLD" (Don't shiver children! She's just telling a spooky story.)

Saw an interview with Ted Nugent the other day (On Glenn Beck) and he was talking about a time when his son was in a swimming race and he swam fast and came in first.....or did he? (cue ominous music) Nope. He was disqualified...because he SWAM TOO FAST!!!!!!!

I'm not kidding you folks. That's straight from The Nuge's mouth. Talk about having blood shoot out of your eyes.

Oh and all the Liberal whiners that go on and on about McCain having "so many houses he can't keep track of 'em!"

Um. Excuse me but, isn't that pretty much the very definition of the American Dream? To freakin' SUCCEED IN LIFE??!?!?!?

Gah.

Good googly moogly

It's been ages since I've posted. Sorry 'bout that. Not that I'm interesting or anything but, sometimes it's just nice to read something "different". *G*

So, I've been thinking about doing this 101 things in 1001 days thingie that I saw on the internet. Here's a web link for those of you who are scratching your heads. It just seems like a...well neat thing to do. I'm such a list person even though I never really get around do doing what's on my lists. Or I should say I USUALLY don't get around to it. Sometimes I do most of a list and then lose interest.

I guess I'm hoping for motivation for this. One of the "rules" is that your list items must be complete and realistic goals for your life. Meaning that you have to actually sit and THINK about them, you can't just write "declutter". Declutter what? Where? How often? Those types of questions.

And I've always been one to steer away from "those" types of questions when I'm making a "to do" list. I never get very specific.

M says, in his "joking" manner, "impossible! You'd have to do like one thing every ten days!" LOL that's sort of the point hon.

I'm tired of not DOING the things I've been wanting to do. Like learning to bake bread from scratch or planting a kitchen garden so I can have fresh veggies in the spring and summer. Oh I talk about it all the time. I read the books, 'cause of course if it's a book I'll read it, but I never get around to DOING it.

I think the last thing I decided I wanted to learn to do and actually did it was learning to knit. And we all know how far THAT went. I think I've completed 4 or 5 things in the 3 years since I've learned. Well, except for the extremely easy dishcloths. I've accumulated enough yarn to make 50 or so projects, if they're big projects, but I don't DO anything with it. So, I'm going to make that one of my, or maybe many of my, list items.

This just seems like an unique challenge to me. I might even get to the really big things like my weight and the *sigh* house. *G*

That's all for now. Gonna go watch the cats be curious about their new water fountain. I might even take some pictures.